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On This Day During The Crimean War: Notification: August 11, 1855, Sub-Inspector WP Coppinger, Royal Irish ... @ Tue 11 Aug 2015 12:00 - 13:00 (On This Day)

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Tuesday, August 11. Notification: August 11, 1855, Sub-Inspector WP Coppinger, Royal Irish . @ Tue 11 Aug 2015 12:00 - 13:00 (On This Day). More details ». August 11, 1855, Sub-Inspector WP Coppinger, Royal Irish Constabulary, died while serving with the Commissariat in the Crimea. Tue 11 Aug 2015 12:00 – 13:00 Athens. Balaklava, near Sevastopol. Guest list has been hidden at organiser's request). Invitation from Google Calendar. Posted by George William Muir R.N. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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On This Day During The Crimean War: 2015-06-28

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Saturday, July 4. Notification: July 4, 1855, Captain Stephen Lushington was promoted to . @ Sat 4 Jul 2015 12:00 - 13:00 (On This Day). More details ». July 4, 1855, Captain Stephen Lushington was promoted to Flag rank and subsequently relieved in the command of the Naval Brigade by Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel. Sat 4 Jul 2015 12:00 – 13:00 Athens. Guest list has been hidden at organiser's request). Invitation from Google Calendar. Posted by George William Muir R.N. Links to this post. Friday, July 3.

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures: November 2010

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures. Was Assistant Surgeon in Vesuvius. Throughout the time Richard Ramsay Armstrong served in her. It is clear from Armstrong's account that he and King were inseperable and got up to much mischief, as well as experiencing the horrors of war together. (Armstrong's description of the work of the surgeons after the battle of the Alma is not for the squeamish or faint-hearted.). The dead and wounded after the battle of the Alma. As the ship's company of Vesuvius.

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures: August 2009

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures. Image PW5680, © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Oswald Walter Brierly's painting of Vesuvius. And Gun Boats Wrangler. At the destroying of stores, Sea of Azoff, 1 Sept 1855. Published here with the kind permission of the National Maritime Museum. Career was as follows (extracted from the Navy Lists):. Her first commander was William Simpson Blount in 1840. 23 August 1841 until 1844 commanded by Erasmus Ommanney, Mediterranean station. 17 August 1853...

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures: January 2009

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures. RRA now at Amazon! Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures now available from Amazon.com. RRA at Amazon.com. And at Amazon.co.uk. RRA at Amazon.co.uk. Posted by Tom Muir. Captain Sir James Stirling. RRA's first captain was Sir James Stirling in HMS Howe. Here are some notes about him from the Clan Sterling website at clanstirling.org. There is also a full biography of Sir James online at the Australian Dictionary of Biography. The Stirling fami...

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On This Day During The Crimean War: 2015-05-24

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Saturday, May 30. Notification: May 30, 1855, Mr. John Sawell of the British Army Post Of. @ Annually from 12:00 to 13:00 on May 30 (On This Day). More details ». May 30, 1855, Mr. John Sawell of the British Army Post Office died at Balaklava. Annually from 12:00 to 13:00 on May 30 Athens. Guest list has been hidden at organiser's request). Invitation from Google Calendar. Posted by George William Muir R.N. Links to this post. Friday, May 29. More details ». Annually from 12:30 to 13:30 on May 29 Athens.

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On This Day During The Crimean War: 2015-07-12

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Saturday, July 18. Notification: July 18, 1855, the Allied Admirals reconnoitred the fortr. @ Sat 18 Jul 2015 12:30 - 13:30 (On This Day). More details ». July 18, 1855, the Allied Admirals reconnoitred the fortress of Revel. (Modern day Tallinn, Estonia). Sat 18 Jul 2015 12:30 – 13:30 Athens. Guest list has been hidden at organiser's request). Invitation from Google Calendar. Posted by George William Muir R.N. Links to this post. More details ». Sat 18 Jul 2015 12:00 – 13:00 Athens. To stop receiving th...

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures: November 2009

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures. Hubert Campion (1825-1900) was First, or Senior Lieutenant in Vesuvius. In the Black Sea under Richard Ashmore Powell. Richard Ramsay Armstrong would have known him well, despite not mentioning him by name in the Book of His Adventures. Sadly, I can find no photograph of the man. Hubert Campion's obituary on page seven of The Times. Of Tuesday, 17 April, 1900, reads as follows:. Typical of the briefer type of naval obituary in The Times. 11 Oct 50 - 5 De...

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures: December 2009

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Richard Ramsay Armstrong's Book of his Adventures. John Billingham Swann (1828-1904) was a Passed Clerk in Vesuvius. From the 29th of June, 1853, until appointed Assistant Paymaster in Diamond. On the 9th of February, 1855, so would have messed with Richard Ramsay Armstrong and they would have known one another well. In the appendices of RRA's Book of his Adventures.). There doesn't seem to be much concrete evidence for his naval career. There is, however, a relevant record at the National Archives.